Biosolids' Health Effects Topic Of Citizen's Forum

July 15, 2005

ISLE OF WIGHT — Biosolids will be the topic of discussion at a citizen's informational forum 7 p.m. Thursday at the Carrollton Elementary School on New Town Haven Lane.

Robert Hale, a scientist with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and C.W. Williams , who sits on the Biosolids Use Regulations Committee of the Virginia Department of Health, will speak about the health effects of the sludge.

Five Isle of Wight farmers applied for permits to spread biosolids on their land. On July 25 the county will hold public hearings on these permits and on the county's sludge regulation..